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The Heartbreaks and Complications of School-Age Desire: A Reading List

The Heartbreaks and Complications of School-Age Desire: A Reading List

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By Jonathan Galassi | April 11, 2022

How Sylvia Plath Calls Out for Connection Across Time

How Sylvia Plath Calls Out for Connection Across Time

Sina Queyras Writes in Conversation with “Lady Lazarus”

By Sina Queyras | April 11, 2022

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Madhushree Ghosh on Food as Survival, Grief, and Liberation

Anjali Enjeti in Conversation with the Author of Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family

By Anjali Enjeti | April 11, 2022

Jeff VanderMeer on Ursula K. Le Guin, Tove Jansson, and Ottessa Moshfegh

Jeff VanderMeer on Ursula K. Le Guin, Tove Jansson, and Ottessa Moshfegh

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Blacks and Jews: Fifty-Five Years After James Baldwin’s “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White”

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Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau Dissect a Classic American Polemic, Still Relevant Today

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Putin’s Attack on Ukraine is an Attack on Its Language: Poetry by Kateryna Kalytko

Putin’s Attack on Ukraine is an Attack on Its Language: Poetry by Kateryna Kalytko

“Defend yourself to your last breath—and whatever you do / don’t let them near you.”

By Literary Hub | April 8, 2022

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